Kevin watched his siblings walk out of the door from his bedroom window. What he would give to go back to school. He often thought that if he was less of a jerk in high school, he might not have been punished like he had. He hated to think about what was happening to him. He would never walk again, spand a day without taking any pills and he doubted he'd ever have another girlfriend. He also knew that molst people who were injured at his age didn't live much past fifty. That gave him thirty years. Just thirty...

Life was too hard for him at the moment. He didn't want to get up; it was too difficult, and he had no reason to get up. He decided he was just going to lie there for the entire day. He did'nt mind if he went crazy, he just wanted to be left alone.

Kevin slowly drifted to sleep, but much to his dismay, Helen woke him up just a few hours later.

"I think it's time to get up," she said firmly, yet pityingly.
Kevin just gave a grunt, and pulled the covers off his head. Helen didn't try any more. She thought he could lie in for today, after all, they had only been in Arcadia for a few days. He was probably still adjusting. She exited the room quietly, and went into her own room.

She lay down on her bed and shut her eyes. Before se knew it, she was burying her face in the pillow, crying her eyes out. She wasn't sure why she was crying, but she never was these days. She put it down to the stressful move. The moving trucks had been late, and they hit peak hour traffic going through the cities. Then the arrived to their new house, only to discover that the people they had hired to adapt the house for Kevin, were running behind schedule, so they had to leave Kevin downstairs in the lounge room for the first night.

Helen dried her tears. She hoped Kevin hadn't heard her; she wasn't sure if he'd take it too well. She peaked back inot Kevin's room, thankful to discover he was still asleep. She ventured down stairs, amazed to find that it was already two o'clock. She must have been crying for hours!

She began to get her ingredients out for tea. She was going to make Kev's favourite; chicken drumsticks.